I've got the opposite situation, I'm trying to limit input to multiple
numbers (so digits and spaces) which can be done with

android:digits="0123456789 "

however now I can't get the IME soft keypad to display.  So maybe you
can add letters to that, and it will give you a way to suppress the
keypad.

(If you remove the space, then you still get only numbers and then you
can get the keypad as well.)


On Jun 23, 6:13 pm, Alex B <[email protected]> wrote:
> Google recently released Android 1.5, adding a significant feature -
> the soft keyboard - yet they have not provided any information on how
> to *properly* suppress it. Until 1.5, we've been dealing with the
> physical keyboard, and custom onscreen buttons. As of 1.5, an onscreen
> keyboard appears when an input field is focused/touched.
>
> It seems to me that the introduction of such a major UI feature should
> come with ample documentation describing how to deal with it...
> particularly, how to suppress it. Until now, I have not seen any
> official documentation about this. There has been some discussion on
> the dev list, but only hacks have been presented. Indeed, some of the
> hacks do suppress the keyboard, but they come with the loss of certain
> behaviour - functional or aesthetic.
>
> What is needed, is a *clean* way of suppressing the keyboard. At the
> very least, on a field-by-field basis... but best would be on an
> activity or app basis. Actually, ideally, all three methods should be
> presented.
>
> Personally, I don't want the soft keyboard to show up *anywhere*
> within my app, regardless of activity or EditText text input field. If
> you know how to do this, or if you know how to get the Android team's
> attention, please help.
>
> Thank you.
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